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Lee Rigby's murderers wanted martyrdom - they will get jail

The men who murdered him called themselves soldiers of Allah. They thought their war was on the streets of Woolwich.

Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale had been waiting for a soldier to kill. That soldier was Lee Rigby, and as they spotted him in his ‘Help for Heroes’ top walking down the road outside the barracks, they accelerated and hit him.

But it wasn’t enough for them to knock him over. In very graphic detail the jury heard how, in the middle of the day, they repeatedly stabbed and slashed Lee Rigby’s neck and tried to decapitate him. And that was still not enough: they then dragged his body into the road.

In dramatic footage captured on CCTV when the armed police arrived, the men rushed them, knives and gun in hand.